Pay It Forward {Day 26/Year 2}

I'm giving you fair warning, I'm going to whine just a little.

We had the flu on Thanksgiving, sore throats and the sniffles yesterday and today we have the whole ungodly cold in all its glorious forms.

I've got to be honest, it's not pretty here.

Regardless, the awesome Shae from Macaroni Kid gave us tickets to The Festival of Trees which Liam and I love to attend together every year. I had promised him and had been building it up all week, so we went. It's a great charity event for the Kennedy Krieger Institute who brings awesomeness to sick and injured kids all year long.

We had a tremendous time and spent more money than we should have after my Black Friday Extravaganza, but it was all in the name of charity and paying it forward.

Happy Holidays!


(I'm off to a NyQuil fueled sleep filled with dreams of feeling better tomorrow.)

PIF: Day Fourteen

Pay It Forward: Day Fourteen

I made a donation tonight to an organization that I have long intended to give to. I gave to the International Cesarean Awareness Network, so that other woman may know different experiences than mine.

Peace!

PIF: Day Twelve

Pay It Forward: Day Twelve

We jumped right into pay it forward today as we zoomed through the Drive-Thru at a MickeyD's on the way to Liam's Friday play group. In addition to my "GIANT Diet Coke" as Liam calls it, we picked up "a hand" to support the Ronald McDonald House Charities for a buck. Felt good, I signed Liam's name on it, painless, cheap--although not inherently personal.

Then, on a trip to the store later in the day Liam made a bee line to one of those behemoth child toting carts. The ones where the kid sits in a seat behind the cart. They are the semi-trucks of the retail shopping experience. Insane to drive around the store, but it keeps Liam quiet--so Sign. Me. Up. Anywho, another little girl rushed to the same cart and Liam and I yielded the cart to the other mom and family. It was a cinch since I could see another one just a short walk away, and the other mom was super appreciative since her daughter was likely to have meltdown of the century if we didn't move along. (I've been there other-mom. I totally get it. Glad we could make today a little easier for her.)

Thirdly, when I got to work this evening. I took a few extra seconds and turned on my colleagues computer, booted it up and logged him in. He was totally stoked to not have to wait for the ridiculously slow computer to load. Hooray!

In other news, Tim let me sleep in for an extra hour this morning. Happy pay it forward morning to me. And, a blogger friend sent me an e-mail with some ideas to get me out of my pay it forward slump. If I use any, I'll totally give her props! It was awesome that she took time out of her day to brainstorm some ideas and then jot them down and send them to me.

Lastly, Tim's mom came down to visit today from the upper east coast and made a stop for her co-worker several hours into her trip to drop off a banner that the woman had forgotten. Paying it forward, BAM!!

Make extra sure to jot down all of your awesome random acts of kindness this month as 30 folks will be sweetly rewarded.